Originally
posted by
kemo:
not everyones got time to war at the drop of a hat son. i sure as hell dont. if thats the only way you feel comfortable have at it. he didnt hurt anyone else that i can see. correct me if im wrong
If a player in NBK or CC wants to make a topfeed, and one guy keeps his countries in DR, that makes me more likely to get attacked if I don't keep my countries in DR. Similarly, if I keep 10 million turrets on 20k acres, and he keeps just 5 million turrets on 20k acres, I'm making him more likely to be attacked than if I kept 1 million turrets on 20k acres.
In my opinion, buying military is an acceptable way to make other people's countries more attractive than your own as grabbing targets. But putting yourself into DR is not an acceptable way to increase the likelihood that someone else gets attacked instead of you.
I'm not going to war people over it, but I do think its lame. If I self-landtrade, that increases the amount of land available to you and makes you less likely to be grabbed, and gives you better gains if you choose to grab. By self-landtrading, I'm not hurting you, and in fact, I'm helping you. Thus, it could even be argued that by not self-landtrading, you're hurting me.
XxX was farmed by Stones early on, and was probably sent the same messages of "join me or you will be farmed all set", and he chose to retal some of those hits, and chose to not do a lot of retals that he should have done. He didn't run retallers, so its no surprise that people will hit you if you don't retal.
When people hit me, I retal, often within hours of being attacked. I want people to know that if they hit my tag, I will retal, and I will not bounce. I also want people to know that I am willing to war at the drop of a hat. Even if XxX had just shown people that he would retal, without showing them that he'd be willing to war at the drop of the hat, he would not have gotten farmed as badly. When you let grabs on your tag go unretalled, or you retal them with DHs, that encourages people to grab you some more. When Stones farmed him, he didn't stand up for himself. He should have joined my fight against Paulie, but instead I fought his fight for him, while he sat around without good retallers and GSing his countries into DR rather than defending them with military.